Rainboe wrote:
To repeat again, all was going to the new plan until a fuel feed problem occured late into the flight.
Rainboe - what difference would a fuel feed problem make in this case. I mean, 5Ts of onblock fuel at MAN, is 5Ts of fuel - or am I missing something? Are you saying that there could have been considerably less fuel available than the 5Ts? Or - if that fuel feed problem you are talking about wouldn't have occured, are you then suggesting that the flight might have pressed further on to LHR instead, and landed with even less than 5Ts of fuel?
Please enlighten me and my 747 fellowpilots(although you don't give them much credit, I think they deserve an answer. Granted, I know they are not BA aces, and on top of that, some of them even have less that 10000 hrs on 747).